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 BOB THE CASTAWAY

One day Mr. Webster came Into our office and placed a manuscript on the desk of our editor.

"Did you ever take a sea voyage when you were a boy?" he asked as he dropped into a chair.

The editor said he had never had that pleasure.

"Well, I did—and I was wrecked, too," went on the author. "And I was sent to sea for the same reason that Bob Henderson had to go." Then we got very curious and read the story, which had for its title: "Bob the Castaway; or. The Wreck of the Eagle." We had to laugh when we read that yarn. Bob was such a fun-loving fellow, and he played such awful jokes. He tried to play a joke on an old sea captain at a church donation party, but, to the boy's horror, the minister got the benefit (?) of the fun. Then Bob's parents sent him to sea to cure him, and the boy was wrecked on an Island In the Pacific, and had many thrilling adventures. It's a true-to-life story, for it contains many pages out of Mr. Webster's own experiences. A very nervous passenger on the ship makes a lot of unconscious fun. There is a great hurricane, and an encounter with South Sea natives.

A fine volume, bound in cloth, and well illustrated, and the price is thirty-five cents. Buy it from your bookseller, or send to the Cupples & Leon Company, New York, for it.